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Impact Of Personality Type On Marital Satisfaction, Patricia A. Brown
Impact Of Personality Type On Marital Satisfaction, Patricia A. Brown
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Marital Quality In Deaf-Deaf And Deaf-Hearing Marriages, Anthony G. Mosier
Marital Quality In Deaf-Deaf And Deaf-Hearing Marriages, Anthony G. Mosier
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The purpose of this study was to assess similarities and differences in marital adjustment between Deaf-Deaf and Deaf-hearing married couples. In examining marital adjustment, Spanier's Revised Dyadic Adjustment Scale (RDAS) was translated from English to American Sign Language (ASL) and administered to 30 Deaf-Deaf and 22 Deaf-hearing couple respondents.
Although there were no statistically significant differences between the two groups. Deaf-Deaf couples tended to have higher marital adjustment mean scores than Deaf-hearing couples. Deaf-hearing females reported the lowest levels of marital adjustment.
A qualitative component of the study yielded information concerning what Deaf-Deaf and Deaf-hearing couples consider the most important …
Theory Of Change Projects Used In Marriage And Family Therapy Programs, David J. Prior
Theory Of Change Projects Used In Marriage And Family Therapy Programs, David J. Prior
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Theory of change papers and projects are used by various marriage and family therapy (MFT) training programs throughout the United States and Canada. Little is known about how these projects differ and are similar from program to program. The purpose of this study was to obtain a better knowledge and understanding about these projects.
Questionnaires regarding the use of theory of change projects were sent to all accredited and candidacy MFT programs throughout the United States and Canada. An exploratory, descriptive design was used to guide the research, and content analysis was used to analyze the data. The research was …
Disability, Gender And Marriage, Heba Hagrass
Disability, Gender And Marriage, Heba Hagrass
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Christian Family As Church? Inquiry, Analysis, And Pastoral Implications, Ennio Pasquale Mastroianni
Christian Family As Church? Inquiry, Analysis, And Pastoral Implications, Ennio Pasquale Mastroianni
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of this dissertation is to determine in what sense the Christian family can be called Church: not at all, analogically, and/or univocally. Integral to the dissertation is that the hierarchical magisterium of the Roman Catholic Church has developed significantly the ecclesial nature of the Christian family during the past three decades. During the Second Vatican Council the council fathers developed a seed text in which they use the term "domestic Church" to connote this ecclesial dimension of Christian marriage and the family which derives from it.
The core of this study is two-fold: first, to determine the meaning, …
Creating High-Quality Marriages: A Qualitative Study Of Religious Couples, Jerry Lyman Redd
Creating High-Quality Marriages: A Qualitative Study Of Religious Couples, Jerry Lyman Redd
Theses and Dissertations
This study is a qualitative analysis of in-depth interviews with thirty-two couples who have been married for eight years. Although the couples in this sample have similar religious, economic, and cultural backgrounds, the quality of each marriage is quite different. Ten couples have exceptionally high-quality marriages, eighteen have average-quality marriages, three are struggling, and one couple has been divorced. The purpose of this study was to better understand what the ten couples with high-quality marriages are doing to create successful relationships. I conclude that high-quality marriages are created by a couple's participation in a particular process with a specific paradigm …